Breakthrough in Handgun Accuracy: One Simple "Trick"
First, let's talk about one of the most significant problems causing marksmanship and accuracy problems for many shooters, many more than would either care to admit it or even realize it. It sneaks up on you so gradually you just kind of get used to it. I'll give you the problem and solution right away and if you want to read more and read about my "miracle" yesterday, keep on going. I'm so excited about it I can hardly stand it.
SUMMARY
Here is the problem: PRESBYOPIA
Here is the solution:
Presbyopia is the normal loss of near focusing ability that occurs with age. Most people begin to notice the effects of presbyopia sometime after age 40, when they start having trouble seeing small print clearly - including text messages on their phone. You can't escape presbyopia, even if you've never had a vision problem before. Even people who are nearsighted will notice that their near vision blurs when they wear their usual eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct distance vision The eye's lens hardens with age, resulting in blurred near vision. This is called presbyopia.The eye's lens stiffens with age, so it is less able to focus when you view something up close.
What impact does this have on handgun accuracy? The less you are able to see objects in sharp focus the less you will be able to get a super sharp front sight focus and accurate sight picture. Again, it sneaks up on you and many just think, "Oh, well, I can get along with it ok." WRONG.
Now, what is the "miracle breakthrough" ... eye protection that has full lens magnification, not partial lens magnification, not bifocal, but full lens magnification. Yesterday I brought out to the range a pair of full frame magnified lenses and the results were nothing short of, miraculous, for me. I've been training for years and have been doing "ok" but ... after all these years of intense training my mechanics were improving, but my eyesight was declining, so I was not getting the kind of tight groups I was always chasing, and I was unable to get rounds decently on targets from 25 yards and beyond. Until yesterday.
Yesterday with the glasses I'm going to tell you about I was able to put every round into an 8" target from 25 yards, very consistently and at closer distances, I was able to get ragged single holes in the bullseye, it was, simply "miraculous." Why? I could finally see a super sharp front sight and an in focus sight picture!
Now, the good news is this, when you use magnified lenses you do NOT have to get the same strength you may be using for reading glasses, in fact, you should not, since you are looking at something at arms length to begin with, you need less magnification, so I bought a 1x magnification and I'm going to get .5 magnification to see how that works as well.
At the end of the day, I backed up and was banging my 12"x20" steel target from 35 yards, center mass, and could even place shots at top and bottom at will.
So needless to day I left the range more joyful than I have been in a VERY long time. All that training has paid off for me and I've got grip and trigger manipulation down, and with that sharp front sight focus, the rounds are actually going where I intend them to go.
Here is where you can buy them on Amazon, very inexpensively. Note: You can buy them in various power magnification. Buy at least .5 under what you wear right now to read comfortably. I'm still experimenting with the right power for my eyes, but right now the 1x is working fantastically well.
First, let's talk about one of the most significant problems causing marksmanship and accuracy problems for many shooters, many more than would either care to admit it or even realize it. It sneaks up on you so gradually you just kind of get used to it. I'll give you the problem and solution right away and if you want to read more and read about my "miracle" yesterday, keep on going. I'm so excited about it I can hardly stand it.
SUMMARY
Here is the problem: PRESBYOPIA
Here is the solution:
Presbyopia is the normal loss of near focusing ability that occurs with age. Most people begin to notice the effects of presbyopia sometime after age 40, when they start having trouble seeing small print clearly - including text messages on their phone. You can't escape presbyopia, even if you've never had a vision problem before. Even people who are nearsighted will notice that their near vision blurs when they wear their usual eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct distance vision The eye's lens hardens with age, resulting in blurred near vision. This is called presbyopia.The eye's lens stiffens with age, so it is less able to focus when you view something up close.
What impact does this have on handgun accuracy? The less you are able to see objects in sharp focus the less you will be able to get a super sharp front sight focus and accurate sight picture. Again, it sneaks up on you and many just think, "Oh, well, I can get along with it ok." WRONG.
Now, what is the "miracle breakthrough" ... eye protection that has full lens magnification, not partial lens magnification, not bifocal, but full lens magnification. Yesterday I brought out to the range a pair of full frame magnified lenses and the results were nothing short of, miraculous, for me. I've been training for years and have been doing "ok" but ... after all these years of intense training my mechanics were improving, but my eyesight was declining, so I was not getting the kind of tight groups I was always chasing, and I was unable to get rounds decently on targets from 25 yards and beyond. Until yesterday.
Yesterday with the glasses I'm going to tell you about I was able to put every round into an 8" target from 25 yards, very consistently and at closer distances, I was able to get ragged single holes in the bullseye, it was, simply "miraculous." Why? I could finally see a super sharp front sight and an in focus sight picture!
Now, the good news is this, when you use magnified lenses you do NOT have to get the same strength you may be using for reading glasses, in fact, you should not, since you are looking at something at arms length to begin with, you need less magnification, so I bought a 1x magnification and I'm going to get .5 magnification to see how that works as well.
At the end of the day, I backed up and was banging my 12"x20" steel target from 35 yards, center mass, and could even place shots at top and bottom at will.
So needless to day I left the range more joyful than I have been in a VERY long time. All that training has paid off for me and I've got grip and trigger manipulation down, and with that sharp front sight focus, the rounds are actually going where I intend them to go.
Here is where you can buy them on Amazon, very inexpensively. Note: You can buy them in various power magnification. Buy at least .5 under what you wear right now to read comfortably. I'm still experimenting with the right power for my eyes, but right now the 1x is working fantastically well.